WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s high press aide is horning in on White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s childhood insult sport, telling HuffPost that Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth wore a tie that resembles the Russian flag as a result of “your mother purchased it for him.”
Hegseth wore that neckwear throughout Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s go to to the White Home Friday, for which he received compliments from a high aide to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and the official Russian information company, TASS, as a result of its pink, white and blue stripes match the sample of Russia’s flag.
When HuffPost requested Hegseth’s aides if he was conscious of the reward from Russia and if he had worn the tie beforehand, Pentagon chief spokesman Sean Parnell responded with the ready assertion: “Your mother purchased it for him — and it’s a patriotic American tie, moron.”
HuffPost then adopted up with a query asking if Hegseth — who steadily wears garments made up of items of the U.S. ensign — was conscious of the U.S. flag code, which states partly: “The flag ought to by no means be used as carrying attire, bedding, or material.”
Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson responded to that with the assertion: “If loving one’s nation sufficient to characterize it head to toe is against the law within the eyes of the leftist weblog often known as HuffPost, then think about Secretary Hegseth responsible. He’s a patriot who reveres this nation and our flag.”
Leavitt responded to a HuffPost question final week about Budapest as the situation of the following assembly between Trump and Putin relating to his invasion, given town’s historical past as the positioning the place Russia promised in 1994 to not invade Ukraine if it surrendered the 1,200 nuclear weapons it inherited on the breakup of the Soviet Union. Putin reneged on that promise beginning in 2014 and, to today, slaughters Ukrainians of their houses with close to nightly drone and missile assaults.
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HuffPost asked Leavitt and White Home communications director Steven Cheung who picked Budapest. Leavitt answered, “Your mother did,” and Cheung responded a minute later with: “Your mother.”
